The General Staff of the Turkish Army made a statement on Aug. 25. The General Staff supports the Government's efforts towards solving the long-term Kurdish problem, but at the same time rejects the possibility of dialogue with the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which for 25 years has been seeking to establish by force an independent Kurdish state in the south-east of Turkey, the statement said, RIA Novosti reported.
The statement, posted on the official website of the Turkish military authorities, also mentions that the Army rejects any actions directed against the state system and it refuses to recognize Kurdish as an official language.
"The Turkish state is an indivisible union of the country and people. Its official language is Turkish,'' the statement undersigned by the head of the department, Army Gen. Ilker Bashbug, emphasized.
The Turkish Armed Forces will not allow any damage to the structure and indivisible unit of the nation-state under any circumstances, the statement said. The Turkish army is vigorously battling the separatist terrorist organization, the same source stated.
Ankara is likely to take "radical measures" to resolve the Kurdish problem, Turkish Prime-Minister, Receb Tayyib Erdogan, said last week. He believes that it is high time for this.
The opposition strongly criticized the government's plans, saying that it is making concessions with terrorists. The implementation of the plan, supposedly imposed by the U.S, to solve the Kurdish problem may lead to a schism within Turkey and it may suffer the same fate as Iraq and former Yugoslavia.